3 Oct 2012 To the Editor, Send me update links and I will post them ! ...   Craig Heber

4 Oct 2012 Hi Roz,   Thanks again for all those kind words and all the work you're doing trying to get me on the Wpg Jazz Festival. I really appreciate it. And thanks for the videos at the service. Man, you really did do some work.   Talk to you soon and...

October 3, 2012   To the Editor   Rosalind Marmel did a fabulous job telling the story of this unique service filled with song, music, and prayer. This was an amazing experience for everyone in the room and you captured those very special moments in your...

October 1, 2012     TERRIFIC JOB ROZ !! CAN'T PRAISE YOU OR THANK YOU ENOUGH. IT WAS DONE WITH THE SAME PASSION AND DEDICATION THAT PERVADES THE SPIRIT OF OUR SERVICES. YOSHER KOACH !   ALLAN BLYE

September 28, 2012 To the Editor, RE:  http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=2905&sec=1&title=Forgotten_Refugees:_Israel_Highlights_Jews_From_Arab__&_Muslim_Lands_at_U.N. It's also important to remember that the Jews didn't leave...

27 Sep 2012   Toronto, ON – Today at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas re-affirmed his intention to persist in avoiding formal obligations to engage in direct negotiations with Israel, and...

  17 Sep 2012 Leshana tova tekatev v'techatem. I am the publicist for Sony Music Canada, I hope my email finds you well. I am delighted to be working with Sony Music on the release of Itzhak Perlman’s new CD release. There is some information below, I have...

      September 17, 2012 To the Editor,   AS THE Winnipeg Free Press reported "Winnipeg police are asking for the public’s help in tracking down the perpetrators of anti-Semitic posters that were put up around the downtown Friday."...

September 24, 2012 On the eve of Yom Kippur, when Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is slated to address the United Nations General Assembly, B’nai Brith has renewed its call for the Security Council to take action on his incitement to genocide of the Jewish people. Frank...

Re: QUESTION FOR BARTLEY KIVES, RE ANTISEMITIC POSTERS : HOW MANY ANTISEMITIC EMAILS DID YOU GET? by Rhonda Spivak, September 16, 2012 I anxiously await your update and/or correction to the above mentioned piece, considering that the Winnipeg Free Press did in fact...

Sun, 16 Sep 2012     Bravo Rhonda for publishing this - it never hurts to show what was said and for everyone to make their own judgment!

12 Sep 2012   Good morning,  My name is Phil Jacobs.    I'm the exec ed of the Washington Jewish Week and Baltimore Jewish Times.  I am writing to ask permission to run Ms. Spivak's comment piece on the Canadian Embassy closure.  We would...

Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Hannah Rosenthal and Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues Douglas Davidson Invite you to recognize the indomitable spirit of theMS St. Louis survivors with a special program and performance Monday, September 24, 11:00...

    September 2012 Dr. Aharon Ben-Ze'ev President,University of...

September 10th, 2012 B’nai Brith Canada has called on all Canadians to mark the eleventh anniversary tomorrow of the 9/11 attacks, which claimed the lives of nearly 3,000 innocent men, women and children. The Jewish human rights organization continues to stress...

Friday, September 7, 2012 Montreal –M.P. Irwin Cotler, International Chair of the Responsibility to Prevent Coalition on the dangers of a nuclear, genocidal, terrorist-supporting, and rights-violating Iran, said today that “The Canadian government’s...

September 7, 2012 B’nai Brith Canada welcomes the announcement earlier today by Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird to cut all diplomatic ties with the regime in Iran, by closing the Canadian Embassy in Tehran and evicting Iranian diplomats in...

30 Aug 2012 LET MIGRON STAY !!!!  Has Gone Viral  -    250,140 hits since August 28   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fphs91zCY6o  Please forward to your email lists world wide    Thanks for helping Israel.    ...

 30 Aug 2012  I am seeking the heirs of Esther Shechter, a Winnipeg Yiddish writer whose memoir "Di geshikhte fun mayn lebn" (The story of my life) was published in 1951. Any family members are invited to email me...

30 Aug 2012    Canadian best-selling author Cordell Cross (The Himmler Stratagem) questions why United States Senator Joe Lieberman, Jewish leaders, rabbis, and world politicians did not speak up when certain details of WW2 and the...

August 24, 2012 Toronto, ON - The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) joined with numerous others, including the World Jewish Congress, in expressing its profound disappointment that United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will attend the Non-Aligned...

August 20, 2012 Selkirk, MB - James Bezan, Member of Parliament for Selkirk-Interlake, issued strong words condemning the Al-Quds Day rally held this past weekend at the Ontario Legislature at Queen’s Park. Al-Quds day, which refers to Jerusalem, is an...

 Sun, 19 Aug 2012 I just read Ari's tribute to his Zayde Irving Belfer apparently born around  1905. . I am curious to be in touch with Ari because my own Zayde (we call it Zeideh  down under in Australia) was Elias (Eliyahu Shalom) Belfer the...

sent July 24,  posted August 17, 2012 Nice story Rhonda --- May we reprint it with credit to you and the Winnipeg  Jewish Review? Thanks, Don Harrison, editor San Diego Jewish World      Editor's Response: yes absolutely   Don...

July 30,2012   Delightful article.  She is a real character.   Harriet Berkal

July 30, 2012 Good one.     Rhonda Prepes

10 August 2012 I missed the festival, but it's one of my favorite films... David Suissa,

August 1, 2012  AIPAC applauds the House passage (421-6) of the Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act. This bill represents the strongest set of sanctions the United States has ever imposed on any country during peacetime.  Each passing day...

July 27, 2012 Toronto, ON – In honour of the opening of the 2012 Summer Olympics today in London, David Koschitzky, Chair of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, made the following statement: “With much excitement, we join with our fellow Canadians...

28 July 2012 In marking the centenary of the birthof Raoul Wallenberg, 1912-2012 Award-winning authors Kati Marton of the United States and Bengt Jangfeldt of Sweden will discuss the heroic efforts of the Swedish diplomat to rescue Jews in Hungary and his mysterious...

July 18, 2012 Toronto, ON – Bulgarian and Israeli officials have confirmed media reports of the bombing of an Israeli tour bus at Sarafovo Airport in the city of Burgas. At this point, reports state that at least seven Israelis have been killed and twenty...

18 July 2012    Continued vigilance necessary in all Jewish communities    TORONTO, 18 July 2012 – Canada’s Jewish community has condemned today’s terror attack in Bulgaria targeting Israeli tourists that has already caused...

Bill Recommends Ways to Bolster U.S. Security, Advance Our Relationship with Israel   AIPAC applauds the House’s passage of the U.S.-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act of 2012—which the Senate approved on June 29. The bill will now go to the...

11 July 2012 Upon learning of the racist graffiti spray-painted on a Sikh elementary school in Brampton, Ontario The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs and UJA Federation of Greater Toronto issued the following statement:  “UJA Federation of Greater...

11 July 2012 Hi Rhonda, I would like to tell you how much I enjoy receiving Winnipeg Jewish Review.  I feel like it keeps me connected to the community in a very easy and user-friendly way. I am writing because we had a really unique and wonderful experience this...

Thursday July 5, 2012   Dear Editor:  Please pass on to Rabbi Green my compliments for his lovely article (posted June 15, 2012) on what makes a great leader of Judaism as he reflected on his 20 years here in Winnipeg.   His list of past leaders...

6 July 2012  Petition against German Ban on Brit Milah June 24, 2012: AGerman court declared that Brit Milah (religious circumcision) isagainst German law. July 1, 2012: The Jewish Hospital inBerlin suspended all religious circumcisions based on theruling. We are...

27 June 2012 – B’nai Brith Canada has communicated the Canadian Jewish community’s outrage to the German government over a Cologne district court’s ban on circumcision, a core, 5, 000-year-old tradition of monumental significance to...

 June 29, 2012 WASHINGTON — AIPAC applauds the Senate passage of the United States-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act of 2012 (S. 2165). This bipartisan bill—which passed by unanimous consent with 69 cosponsors—recommends several ways to...

 June 23  Dear Rhonda,   Back in April you ran an editorial (Israel Advocacy on Campus: Fund Them and They Will Go)that I am still thinking about.  You stated that when you were a university student, you attended the General Assembly of Jewish...

The Grant & Wilton Coffee House presents:   Braden Gates / Emma Cloney   Emma Cloney is a talented local singer/song-writer. Braden Gates from Edmonton is on his cross-Canada tour and coming to sing/play for us. Also, Samantha Marie is going to...

June 11, 2012 Friends,  I wanted to share this important statement made by MP Joyce Bateman in the House of Commons on behalf of our Conservative Government regarding reports of vandalism at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem....

June 12, 2012 Toronto, ON – This summer marks the 40th anniversary of the Munich Olympics, at which 11 members of the Israeli national team were murdered by Palestinian terrorists. Despite requests from the state of Israel and others in the global community, the...

7 June 2012 Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael and the Israel Ministry of Agriculture on behalf of the State of Israel are delighted to be able to share our experience in sound water and land management, specifically in dry land areas. Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael KKL-JNF will...

7 june 2012 TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada has commended Toronto City Council members on the passage of a motion condemning the use of the fallacious term "Israeli Apartheid" at Toronto’s Pride parade. The term has been used by Queers Against...

  June 5, 2012   To the Editor   Sure. It is never too late for antisemites to reconcile to the Jewish people. But would they? It does not look probable. One thing I often hear from ignorant people is, "when are the Jews ever going to shut up about...

4 June 2012 Rhonda,   Itamar Marcus, the director of PMW - Palestinian Media Watch did an extensive revierw of incitemnt in the PA, including a review of school textbooks. Guess who he presented it to? Happens that it was Hillary Clinton when she was Senator from...

31 May 2012 Canada's Jewish human rights organization, B’nai Brith Canada, has alerted NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair regarding its concern over anti-Israel sentiment in his caucus. The organization has learned that Deputy NDP Leader Megan Leslie has been selectively...

25 May 2012   TORONTO, 22 Canadian Jews were presented with Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medals for their dedication and service to Canada during B'nai Brith Canada's annual National Policy Conference.   The recipients were awarded the...

May 25, 2012    Thank you for this. Quite fascinating.  Isi Leibler, Jerusalem